Raw Edge by Benjamin Appel (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Creased cover, yellowing commensurate with age, tight binding, mild spine slant. Very nice used condition.

Paperback. first edition. F-81 very good , couple black marks Photo cover. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ: Good. 1st ptg. 383 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4. Gray boards with qtr red cloth, stamped in black on front and silver and black on spine. Black pictorial dj, minor edgewear, chipped at head.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A look at the New York waterfront in this novel.

Paperback. first edition. F-81 very good -fine, reading crease Photo cover. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. Jacket is rubbed and tanning with light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear, faint tanning along edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. Near Fine in pictorial wraps with red & black lettering & cover photo of a woman in a waterfront cafe looking at a ship. Crime novel of the New York waterfront. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition. Fine in a Vg. + DJ. (Short edge tears & nicks. Trace of rubbing at edges. ) Waterfront novel by the author of "Brain Guy.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tough novel about corruption and power struggles among longshoremen and union bosses on New York's waterfront. Fine in very near fine dustjacket with only trace rubbing and wear at spine ends and folds. A lovely copy.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 392. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1958 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 392.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed "to Charlie Byrne (sp?) who first had the idea, thanks Benjamin Appel" and dated February 1958. Pages lightly toned but still bright and clean. Binding solid, sound, secure. Dustjacket is clean and intact with some mild occasional foxing and rubbing but now in mylar. Billed as "a behind the scenes novel of the New York Waterfront.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Signed and inscribed to front free endpaper. Original red cloth with decorative paper covered boards, red and white lettering to spine. Top edge dyed black. Crime novel of a New York waterfront by American novelist. Very good, in very good dustjacket. Pencil notes to back pastedown.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and edgeworn, Very Good. A hard-boiled novel of the New York waterfront, in the vein of Appel's 1930s proletarian crime novels such as Brain Guy and Powerhouse. Like the Shahns, Appel and his wife were charter residents of Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt), New Jersey and the four remained lifelong friends. Assunpink Creek is a small tributary of the Delaware River. Signed.